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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
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If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
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The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
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The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
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In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
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No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much…
— Roland Barthes
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We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
— Debbie Harry
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I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
— A. S. Byatt
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Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store…
— N. Scott Momaday
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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
— Ann Patchett
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.
— Eavan Boland
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The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar…
— Charlie Byrd
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I want to start where language ends.
— Antony Gormley
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Experiments on split-brain patients reveal how readily the left brain interpreter can make up stories and beliefs. In one experiment, for example,…
— Michael Gazzaniga
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
— Adrienne Rich
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Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence,…
— Martin Amis
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Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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